- February 26, 2025
Continental cuisine restaurant La’s Bistro celebrated its four year anniversary July 24.
It was love at first sight when husband and wife restaurant team Carlos Soldevilla and Casey Jones first met in a pizza shop eight years ago.
Little did they know their relationship would grow beyond Jones picking up wings from Soldevilla’s shop. They celebrated the four year anniversary of their breakfast and lunch restaurant La’s Bistro July 24. Soldevilla addressed the Ormond Beach Chamber of Commerce during their anniversary ribbon cutting while Jones stood quietly beside him.
“She’s the beauty, I’m the personality,” Soldevilla joked.
“Yeah he likes to talk,” Jones joked back.
Since they first opened, Soldevilla said they’ve developed their continental cuisine style to have a flair that makes the ingredients recognizable but the taste unique.
“We’re having a lot of fun with it,” Soldevilla said. “I describe it as continental cuisine with a bistro twist. We do our own twist on every recipe. It’s different from what everyone else is doing.”
Before starting the business, Soldevilla worked in a pizza shop that he enjoyed but said his heart wasn’t into it. Jones worked as an Operating Room Technician and at La’s Bistro for the first two years was opened. She’s now full-time at the restaurant.
“We took over the business four years ago,” Soldevilla said. “It was a great opportunity. The building had a very eclectic mood with our type of atmosphere. The charm of the building definitely helped with that.”
The 90-year-old building has some dynamic amenities that its owners say they’ve used to their advantage including a charming indoor dining room and a patio covered by a natural canopy of trees.
“We seem to fill a little niche here in Ormond,” Soldevilla said. “We seem to compliment other businesses here rather than compete with them.”
